A ceremony site with a second life
Look for a setting that can change mood without asking guests to change rooms.
The Symes, an art deco former incinerator in Toronto’s Junction Triangle, offers sweeping open floors and soaring vaulted ceilings that can be ingeniously transformed between ceremony and dinner through intentional spatial partitioning.
Rather than requiring guests to board buses or wander for two hours while a crew flips a room, use dramatic floor-to-ceiling linen drapes or mobile floral hedge walls to divide the space. Guests experience the ceremony in an intimate, focused chapel setting, move to the adjoining terrace or mezzanine for cocktails, and return to find the full room revealed as a candlelit banquet hall.
Dual-purpose spaces save significant rental overhead while maintaining a cohesive aesthetic world for your guests from arrival to the final farewell.
Notes
What this piece is, and where each photograph comes from. Open the original to check it.
- About this pieceA planning note written by the Wedding Digest desk for the October 2026 Toronto issue. It is general advice, not reporting on a particular couple, venue, vendor, price or availability, and it cites no outside source.
- Photograph · Archeo, Distillery DistrictSimple One Love: Long wooden tables under greenery in a brick-and-beam room. ↗ Rights under review.
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